Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers

"Jim Dann's Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers takes us through the experience of bringing the civil rights movement to Sunflower County, Mississippi. This enthralling book is an original source of living history about the civil rights movement in Mississippi."Stacy J. White, Ph.D., Chair of the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mississippi Valley State University"'We shall overcome' really works, and Jim Dann provides the...
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"Jim Dann's Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers takes us through the experience of bringing the civil rights movement to Sunflower County, Mississippi. This enthralling book is an original source of living history about the civil rights movement in Mississippi."Stacy J. White, Ph.D., Chair of the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mississippi Valley State University"'We shall overcome' really works, and Jim Dann provides the evidence in this first-person account of the Freedom Movement which transformed Mississippi and the rest of the country. The lessons of this clearly-written, enjoyable book are needed by all of us, particularly the emerging generation of activists."Kitty Kelly Epstein, PhD, Professor and Activist, 2013 Recipient of the Scholar Activist Award from the Urban Affairs Association"Many opposed slavery, but few were abolitionists; many opposed segregation, but few lifted a hand to end it. Jim Dann answered the call. If you want to know the how and why of fighting oppression, open this book."Phil Taylor, Radio Broadcaster at CIUT, Toronto"A very vivid account of extraordinary commitment and courage by young Americans to achieve what was perhaps the most important social change of our time."Alan Perry, New Zealand